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It’s time for another Midtown Songwriter Series, but this time, creator Tyler Hopkins is switching things up at CityPres. Tomorrow’s installment will be the first to feature three bands, rather than solo-performing local songwriters. The same perks apply: all ages, early start time, the magic acoustics of beloved City Presbyterian, absence of smoky haze, and of course, free beer, for…

When a bearded man with a saw blade and bow meanders into a church sanctuary unannounced, you should probably be alarmed. Unless that sanctuary is at City Presbyterian in Midtown- because it’s probably just the doing of local musician/esquire/man of Mesta Tyler Hopkins. A couple weeks back, we met up with Hopkins to get a preview of the next installment…

You’ve undoubtedly heard, if not become a frequenter, of H&8th. We know, it’s hard to resist an evening where you can consume meatballs, tacos, ramen, and an assortment of other items (and beer, naturally) simply by meandering down the street. The massive night market expanded its stretch over Midtown for its first night of the season last month, and added…

The corner of 10th and Hudson has become a tented mecca of greenery for all forms of foliage and flower hoarders in Midtown, thanks to a husband-wife duo. The Plant Stand, a locally owned retail garden center, made its debut in the neighborhood last weekend, and will be a regular fixture on the busy corner until June.

Midtown Sessions: Horse Thief – Come On from OKC Midtowner on Vimeo. This is a band that can play anywhere. Iceland. Pizzeria basements. A cramped stairwell of a church. In anticipation of their show Saturday at City Pres, Horse Thief piled into one of the church’s stairwells for a stripped down rendition of “Come On”, track 10 from their…

Midtown Sessions – Cameron Neal of Horse Thief from OKC Midtowner on Vimeo. If you’re looking for respite from smokey bars and the clatter of well bottles coupled with drowned tones of local songwriters, come to City Presbyterian tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Tomorrow, we imagine there will be a mass exodus from the usual beer-serving dwellings to a different Saturday night locale: church. This particular church will have beer, though. Three yet-to-be released COOP Ale Works varieties, to be precise, and a lineup you probably wouldn’t see on Sunday.

Chad Mount has been to the cavernous depths of the ocean. He once met couchsurfers from Switzerland, for whom he painted in a travel journal. He’s been to Finland. Somewhere in between those two events, that particular travel journal painting ended up in the Atlantic, and was most likely destroyed due to an unfortunate shipwreck (flames were involved).